AP's top 10 movies of 2013

"Blue Is the Warmest Color" — Several films this year were fascinating snapshots of lives in motion. The powerful, simply told Bill Moyers' documentary "Two American Families" kept up with two struggling middle-class families for 20 years. And Richard Linklater has covered two decades in the lives of a Paris woman (Julie Delpy) and American writer (Ethan Hawke) in his day-in-a-life series, culminating in "Before Midnight." But Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d'Or-winner (also called "The Life of Adele: Chapters 1&2") is the most memorable for its extreme closeness in portraying a teenager's awakening to herself and the world. Adele Exarchopoulus' performance is staggeringly open. The irony is that the infamous sex scenes in this flawed but arresting coming-of-age tale are easily the most artificial parts in it.

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8. 'Blue Is The Warmest Color'

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"Blue Is the Warmest Color" — Several films this year were fascinating snapshots of lives in motion. The powerful, simply told Bill Moyers' documentary "Two American Families" kept up with two struggling middle-class families for 20 years. And Richard Linklater has covered two decades in the lives of a Paris woman (Julie Delpy) and American writer (Ethan Hawke) in his day-in-a-life series, culminating in "Before Midnight." But Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d'Or-winner (also called "The Life of Adele: Chapters 1&2") is the most memorable for its extreme closeness in portraying a teenager's awakening to herself and the world. Adele Exarchopoulus' performance is staggeringly open. The irony is that the infamous sex scenes in this flawed but arresting coming-of-age tale are easily the most artificial parts in it.